Alternative Tours/Panels

The SPACES Alternative Tours and/or Alternative Student Panels were created to provide a personalized campus experience to various K-14 groups. Our work is geared to provide schools and communities of diverse, underrepresented, under-served, and/or under-resourced backgrounds with access to institutional knowledge in order to inform and empower their decisions. The goal of Alternative Tours and Alternative Student Panels is to give students a holistic understanding of the undergraduate experience on campus by engaging them in the academic, social, cultural, and political aspects at UCSD. Moreover, these programs coincide with SPACES’ mission of increasing students’ access to higher education.

Alternative Tours include an overview of several important locations on campus, various resource centers offered to students of diverse communities, and a brief history of student activism at UCSD. Additionally, Alternative Student Panels consist of current or past UCSD students who provide personal insight on multiple aspects of the college experience. Either program, or both, could be requested for your campus visit. Requests can also be tailored to meet your group’s learning outcomes.

Our services are provided by full-time students who work and volunteer at SPACES at no cost to visitors and student groups. For this reason, we are unable to accommodate requests for tours/panels that:

are submitted to us with less than 2 weeks in advance (unless stated otherwise).

will take place during last week and finals week of each quarter or

will take place during student vacations.

We highly encourage tours/panels to take place during the weekdays as this will provide participants with a more accurate picture of what student life is like at UC San Diego. Offices/resource centers included in the tours may be closed on weekends; our tour guides also tend to have limited availability on weekends.

We will do our best to accommodate your needs. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accept your request.

*To place a request, please complete the form found at this link or at the bottom of this page. Once reviewed, the Campus Diversity Engagement Coordinators will contact you.

Fall 2017 Alternative Tour/Panel Request Deadlines

Deadlines to Submit

Tour/Panel Dates

Last Notification

October 11, 2017

October 19, 2017 – October 28, 2017

October 13, 2017

October 17, 2017

October 30, 2017 – November 11, 2017

October 19, 2017

October 31, 2017

November 13, 2017 – November 22, 2017

November 2, 2017

November 14, 2017

November 27, 2017 – December 8, 2017

November 16, 2017

***There will be no tours/panels from November 23, 2017 – November 26, 2017 due to a holiday***